What is the aids memorial quilt?

Considered the largest community arts project in history, the AIDS Memorial Quilt helps us remember the unique lives and stories of those we’ve lost to HIV/AIDS.

What is a Quilt panel?

Individuals and groups to honor, remember and celebrate the stories and lives of those ones lost to HIV/AIDS. Today, there are roughly 50,000 panels dedicated to more than 110,000 individuals in this epic 54-ton tapestry.

how to make a panel

AIDS QUILT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Our community gathers twice a month for volunteer Panel Making and AIDS Quilt Repair Workshops in the Bay Area. Make a panel or help in the essential, ongoing maintenance and protection of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Join us and ensure that lives lost to HIV and AIDS are never forgotten!

VOLUNTEER TODAY!

In-Person and Virtual Community Quilt Display Program

Share the Quilt's powerful stories of activism, love, healing, hope and remembrance to connect the story of HIV/AIDS to the important issues impacting our nation today.

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SEARCH NAMES ON THE QUILT

Search the AIDS Memorial Quilt, view each panel, search for a friend or loved one and share your story through our social media channels.

SEARCH THE QUILT

AIDS QUILT PANEL MAKERS

Surviving Voices: Untold Stories of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a video series comprised of 19 interviews with lovers, friends, parents, and siblings of some of the 100,000 individuals who are commemorated by the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Their voices remind us, that while the fight against AIDS is not over, we are not alone in our struggle.

LISTEN TO THESE STORIES

“Thousands of people have died in San Francisco, millions in the world. The point of the National AIDS Memorial Grove is to remember them, one at a time.”

- Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

PERSONALIZED PHOTO GIFT

The National AIDS Memorial is now able to transform pristine digital images of individual Quilt panels into beautiful high-resolution photographic prints - learn more

QUILT MOVES TO SAN FRANCISO

Nancy Pelosi announces Quilt Moving to San Francisco, November 2019 watch now

HISTORY OF THE QUILT

Conceived in 1985 by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones - learn more

40 YEARS / 40 STORIES

40 years of stories from the pandemic – the lives lost, the heroes, the survivors - see the stories

MAKE A PANEL

Here in a few easy steps is how to create a panel for The Quilt - learn more

HOST THE QUILT, REQUEST A PANEL

To request to host the Quilt in your community please make a request

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